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An act of war from Israel – but why now?
People I’ve spoken to in the Syrian capital are calling today’s blasts by far the biggest they’ve seen in more than two years of war.
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People I’ve spoken to in the Syrian capital are calling today’s blasts by far the biggest they’ve seen in more than two years of war.
Today’s GDP figures will have prompted relief at the Treasury that there is no new recession. But longer term, the picture for the UK economy is unchanged.
Nick Clegg says the government’s Funding for Lending has been put on steroids. But, if it leads to a house price bubble, is it really an economic policy on smack?
A leading Islamist terror group says it was not behind the marathon bombs, as America asks: did the bombers come from home or abroad?
The banking commission has savaged the way HBOS was run, but it is not the only bank that has struck terror into people’s hearts. Are these are the worst offenders? You decide.
Cyprus bailout: the inside story of a president “humiliated” by EU bureaucrats half his age, and of a country pushed over the edge in order to protect Greece.
As banks in Cyprus battened down the hatches because their customers were trying to take all their money out before it got taken off them, a particular word kept on being mentioned. Bitcoin.
Regulators say Britain’s banks must take action to ensure they can cope with the extra costs they face because of bad debts, mis-selling and the eurozone crisis.
With sweeping controls imposed in Cyprus as banks re-open, a former boss of Laiki bank tells Channel 4 News about the fateful meeting where terms for the country’s bailout were discussed.
In Turkish controlled northern Cyprus there is a sense of schadenfreude over the financial woes of its southern neighbour, but also that unifying the island is “back on the agenda”.
The chancellor’s plans to boost the housing market are “well down the list of Britain’s economic to-do list, and arguably well up the not-to-do list”.
The two leaked bits of George Osborne’s budget show a government trying to connect with voters and trying to get growth with little money in the kitty.
Anger is growing among Cypriots as they queue at cashpoints to withdraw their savings due to the bailout.
As new figures show a rise in mortgage lending is more down to buy-to-letters than first-time buyers, where is the public debate about the effect of government intervention in the mortgage market?
In advocating that RBS should be split into good and bad banks, Sir Mervyn King is showing a “major display of independence in his last months in office”.